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NEW SEEIES No. 154 



BULLETIN OF THE STATE 



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"UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 



ILITARY PAMPHLET 



ISBued semi-monthly thronghout the year. Entered at tne post office at 

Iowa Citv, Iowa, as second class matter. Acceptance for mailing 

at special rate of postage provided for in section lltW, Act 

of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 3, 1918. 




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This bulletin is designed to explain as fully as can 
be done at this time the plan for the Students' Army 
Training Corps. Some modifications may he neces- 
sary. Please read this bulletin carefully for answers 
to questions. If you do not find the information you 
want, write to the Registrar. 



Students who expect to enter the University are 
urged to send their high school or college credentiaU 
to the Registrar immediately. Blank forms will be 
furnished upon application. 



Note that the opening of the University has been 
postponed until October 1. Registratio'U begins Sep- 
tember 26. Schedules of studies will then be ready 



MILITARY PAMPHLET 



I. THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS 
Along with the enactment of the new law which provides for 
the drafting of all men between the ages of 18 and 45, has gone the 
far-reaching project for the creation of a great student army. That 
plan has now been formulated, and the first of October will see it 
put into execution throughout the United States. 

The Committee on Education and Special Training, which has 
been entrusted by the War Department with the management of 
the Students' Army Training Corps, has issued the following 
oflScial statement : 

War Department, Washington, D. C, August 28, 1918. 
STATEMENT 
To : The Colleges of the United States 
From : The Committee on Education and Special Training (General Staff) 

The man-power bill pending in Congress definitely binds the country to 
the policy of consecrating its entire energy to the winning of the war as 
quickly as possible. It fixes the age limit from 18-45, both inclusive. It places 
the nation upon a war basis. The new military program, as outlined by the 
Secretary of War, calls for the increase of the Army by more than two miUion 
men by July' 1, 1919. This will probably necessitate the mobilization of all 
physically fit registrants under 21, within ten months from this date. With 
respect to students, since they are not to be made in any sense a deferred or 
favored class, this means that they will practically all be assigned to active 
service in the field by June, 1919. The only exceptions will be certain students 
engaged in technical studies of military value, e. g., medicine, engineering, and 
chemistry. Under these conditions it is obvious that schools and colleges for 
young men within the age limits of the new law, cannot continue to operate 
as under peace conditions. Fundamental changes must be made in college and 
school practices, in order to adapt them to effective service in this emergency. 

The following statements outline the general plan under which the Stu- 
dents' Army Training Corps will operate under the changed conditions pro- 
duced by the revision of the Selective Service Law: 

1. All young men, who were planning to go to school this fall, should carry 
out their plans and do so. Each should go to the college of his choice, 
matriculate, and enter as a regular student. He will, of course, also regis- 
ter with his local board on the registration day set by the President. As 
soon as possible after registration day, probably on or about October firet, 
opportunity will be given for all the regularly enrolled students to be in- 
ducted into the Students' Army Training Corps at the schools where they 



are in attendance. Thus the corps will be organized by voluntary induction 
under the Selective Service Act, instead of by enlistment as previously con- 
templated. 

The student, by voluntary induction, becomes a soldier in the United States 
Army, uniformed, subject to military discipline and with the pay of a private. 
They will simultaneously be placed on fuli active duty and contracts will be 
made as soon as possible, with the colleges for the housinfj, subsistence and 
instruction of the student soldiers. 

2. Officers, uniforms, rifles and such other equipment as may be available 
will be furnished by the War Department, as previously announced. 

3. The student-soldiers will be given military instruction under officers of 
the Army and will be kept under observation and test to determine their 
qualifications as officer-candidates, and technical experts such as engineers, 
chemists and doctors. After a certain period, the men will be selected ac- 
cording to their performance, and assigned to military duty in one of the 
following ways: 

fa) He may be transferred to a central officers' training camp. 

fb) He may be transferred to a non-commissioned officers' training school, 
(e; He may be assigned to the school where he is enrolled for further in- 
tensive work in a specified line for a limited specified time. 

(d) He luay be assigned to the vocational training section of the Corps for 
technical training of military value. 

(e) He may be transferred to a cantonment for duty with troops as a 
private. 

4. Similar sorting and reassignment of the men will be made at period- 
ical intervals, as the requirements of the service demand. It cannot be now 
definitely stated how long a particular student will remain at college. This 
will depend on the requirements of the mobilization. In order to keep the 
unit at adequate strength, men wiU be admitted from secondary schools or 
transferred from Depot Brigades as the need may require. 

Students will ordinarily not be permitted to remain on duty in the college 
units after the majority of their fellow citizens of like age have been called 
to military service at camp. Exception to this rule will be made, as the 
needs of the service require it, in the case of technical and scientific students, 
who will be assigned for longer periods for intensive study in specialized fields. 

5. No units of the Students' Army Training Corps will, for the present 
be established at secondary schools, but it is hoped to provide at an early date 
for the extension of military instruction in such schools. The secondary 
schools are urged to intensify their instruction so that young men 17 and 18 
years old may be qualified to enter college as promptly as possible. 

6. There will be both a collegiate section and vocational section of the 
Students' Army Training Corps. Young men of draft age of grammar school 
education, will be given opportunity to enter vocational section of the Corps. 
At present about 27,500 men are called for this section each month. Appli- 
cation for voluntary induction into the vocational section should be made to 
the local board and an effort will be made to accommodate as many as pos- 
sible of those who volunteered for this training. 

Men in the vocational section vrill be rated and tested by the standard Army 
methods and those who are found to possess the requisite qualifications may 
be assigned for further training in the collegiate section. 

7. In view of the comparatively short time during which most of the 
student-soldiers will remain in college and the exacting military duties await- 
ing them, academic instruction must necessarily be modified along lines of 
direct military value. The War Department will prescribe or suggest such 
modifications. The schedule of purely military instruction will not preclude 
effective academic work. It will vary to some extent in accordance with the 
types of academic instruction, e. g., will be less ha a medical school than in 
a eollege of liberal arts. 

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8. The primarj purpose of the Students' Army Training Corps is to utilize 
the executive and teaching personnel and the physical equipment of the col- 
leges to assist in the training of our new armies. This imposes great respon- 
sibilities on the colleges and at the same time creates an exceptional oppor- 
tunity for service. 

The colleges are asked to devote the whole energy and educational power of 
the institution to the phases and lines of training desired by the Government, 
The problem is a new one and calls for inventiveness and adaptability as well 
as that spirit of cooperation which the colleges have already so abundantly 
shown. 

9. The plan contemplates the making of contracts with all institutions 
having units of the Students' Army Training Corps for the housing, sub- 
sistence, and instruction of the student soldiers to take effect on or about 
October 1, 1918. A separate statement of this date sets forth the procedure 
and principles governing these contracts. 

Committee on Education and Special Training. 
By ROBERT I. REES, 
Colonel, General Staff Corps, Chairman. 

II. THE FACILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY 
Fortunately the University of Iowa finds itself on familiar 
ground in the process of meeting this situation. Military instruc- 
tion has obtained at the University for nearly half a century. 
Within this period himdreds of its men have received some train- 
ing in warfare and, when occasion has arisen, they have answered 
the call of their country with intelligence, skill, and enthusiasm. 
More than a thousand former students are now in active service, 
and considerably more than half of these are holding military 
commissions. 

University regiment 
Two years ago a branch of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
was established at the University. This organization is now absorbed 
into the Students ' Army Training Corps, at least for the period of 
the war. Last year the University Cadet Regiment consisted of 
two battalions of infantry, signal corps, sanitary detachment, etc., 
numbering all told, between 600 and 700 men. Four officers of 
the United States Army were in charge of the instruction, a captain 
and three non-commissioned officers. A much larger staff wiU be 
required for the coming year. The War Department has detailed 
as commandant of the University S. A. T. C. Captain G. W. Rob- 
ertson, of the U. S. infantry. Assisting him at present are First 
Lieut. L. L, Rupert, adjutant ; Capt. W. S. Brownell, medical corps : 
First Lieut. D. A. Rice, dental corps ; Second Lieut. C. E. CaaweU, 
quartermaster; Second Lieut. H. D. Barmore, air service; Second 
Lieut. J. A. Warden, air service ; First Sergeant M. A. Kelly ; Chief 
Trumpeter Jacob Maier. Other officers will be detailed later. 



Liberal and professional courses 
Furthermore, the University is equipped to provide technical 
instruction along all principal lines which promise immediate 
service for the purposes of the war. The College of Applied 
Science, with its extensive buildings and shops, offers work for 
students of college grade in engineering and chemistry; it is now 
also caring for several hundreds of soldiers engaged in mechanical 
training of various kinds. The Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and 
Pharmacy stand in the first rank among such institutions in the 
country, and the strong College of Liberal Arts, which offers more 
than 600 courses, is equipped and ready to meet the new demands. 
The professional colleges have at present considerable numbers of 
students in the Enlisted Reserve Corps; these now become auto- 
matically members of the S. A. T. C. 

Armory and gymnasium 

The University Armory was built in 1904 and is 80x150 feet in 
dimensions ;an addition, 74x160 feet for gymnasial purposes, was 
built in 1915. This building is equipped with all the appurtenances 
of armory and gymnasium, including shower baths, indoor baseball 
room, handball room, swimming pool, with special filtering equip- 
ment, etc. A part of the building will now be used as mess hall. The 
last General Assembly of Iowa authorized the erection of a large 
drill shed 200x400 feet in dimensions, but the construction of this 
building has been delayed by the present difficulty of securing 
structural .steel. 

Iowa Field 

Adjacent to the Armory is the spacious athletic field of the Uni- 
versity affording ample room for military drill, even for the large 
numbers of students which this year is likely to bring to the Uni- 
versity. The athletic field contains football gridiron, baseball 
diamond, and a quarter-mile cinder track. Extensive concrete 
bleachers have been built and are constantly being enlarged; those 
now erected accommodate about four thousand people; additional 
wooden stands seat half as many more. 

The University also possesses on its campus across the river 
adequate land for trenches, bayonet practice, and the other 
essentials of training in modern warfare. 



Rifle range 

A short distance from Iowa City a well-equipped rifle range is 
available for practice in sliarpshooting. The range is easily 
accessible by trolley. Rifle practice has been for some years a 
special feature of the military training at the University, and the 
University Rifle Team has several times held the championship of 
the United States. It won this championship again during the last 
year. 

Equipment 

Adequate equipment in the way of rifles and other military 
essentials is at hand. The government expects to supply for the 
new body of men all the equipment of this kind that is needed. 

Barracks, mess, etc. 

Under the new regulations all members of the S. A. T. C. must 
be quartered in army barracks in groups of not less than forty or 
fifty men. At the University full provisions will be made for the 
suitable housing of student soldiers. At the outset certain Univer- 
sity and private buildings will be employed; special barracks will 
be constructed as occasion arises. 

The student soldiers are also to mess together in special quarters 
provided for this purpose. They are to be furnished with regular 
Army rations, or their equivalent, and those who are acquainted 
v/ith the quality and quantity of food which the United States 
furnishes its soldiers will realize that both are fuUy adequate. 

Other appurtenances of the usual military camp will also be 
provided. These will include a Y. M. C. A. "hut," either a building 
specially constructed or one adapted to the purpose. A separate 
hospital will not be necessary on account of the extensive facilities 
which are already present in the large University hospitals. As is 
the ease for all students, the services of the medical staff of the 
hospitals are freely at the disposal of student soldiers. 

III. MEMBERSHIP IN THE S. A. T. C. 

Eligibility 
AU registered and able-bodied students of the University who are 
18 years of age will be eligible for induction into the Students' 
Army Training Corps. No upper age limit is set. Students under 
18 years of age may enroll in the Corps and may obtain the benefits 
of notary instruction. These younger men, however, will not 



secure full admission until they attain to military age; they will 
meet their own expenses as usual. High school and other prepara- 
tory students, even if they are over 18 years of age, will not be 
eligible for admission to the Corps. As stated above, the govern- 
ment hopes to make special provision as soon as possible for the 
instruction of the students of high schools and academies. The Uni- 
versity maintains no preparatory department; students of its Ob- 
servational High School, conducted for the training of teachers, will 
not be eligible for admission to the Corps. This is also true of 
preparatory and sub-freshman departments in all colleges. 

Technicians 
The University has for some months been furnishing instruc- 
tion to large bodies of technicians, enlisted men who have been 
detailed by the government from various states for such instruction. 
By the first of next year each group of these men will number 
about 500, and similar bodies will be instructed successively until 
the end of the war, or so long as the government desires. Hence- 
forward these men will form a detachment of the S. A. T. C. 
Students are not admitted to this detachment except by government 
detail. 

Reserve corps 

Many former students of the professional colleges are already 
members of Enlisted Reserv^e Corps. These Corps, the Medical 
Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Dental Enlisted Reserve Corps, and 
the Engineering Enlisted Reserve Corps, are now to be transferred 
to the S. A. T. C. of the University. Students of these technical 
subjects who have not previously enlisted in the Reserve Corps 
will now be placed on the same footing as the enlisted men, though 
their status is perhaps not quite so definite. They wiU be "under 
observation and test," and, if the quality of their work is satis- 
factory, they will be ordered by the Government to remain in 
special training until they are competent to render the technical 
service which is desired of them. 

How to enter the S. A. T. C. 

In order to secure membership in the Students' Army Training 
Corps, the first step of the candidate should be to register in his 
home town on September 12, provided he has not already done so 
at some previous date of registration; if he is not 21 years of age, 
September 12, of course, will be his first opportunity to register. 



The second step is to secure admission as a student of the Univer- 
sity, Stated broadly, the requirement for admission to the Univer- 
sity and to the S. A. T. C. is the completion of not less than a 
four-years high school course. A student who desires admission 
should forward at once to the Registrar a formal certificate of the 
principal of his high school to his having completed the high school 
course. A blank form for this purpose may be obtained upon 
application. Upon receipt of these credentials and their accept- 
ance, an admission card will be filed, and no further steps need be 
taken until the student reaches the University. He should plan 
to be at Iowa City by Thursday, September 26, or at all events 
before the close of that week, in order that his registration and 
the arrangement of his schedule may be completed. Those who 
arrive late may find themselves considerably inconvenienced by 
pressure of the large number of students trying to register at once. 

Entrance to the Students' Army Training Corps will be by 
"voluntary induction" directly after entrance to the University. 
No one will be compelled to become a member of the Corps, but 
it is to be expected that all eligible men will do so. The precise 
method of induction has not yet been announced. It will consist 
in signing a formal application, and will include a medical 
examination. 

The medical examination will be given by local physicians duly 
authorized by the government. In the main the examination will 
probably be of the same nature as that given to every man drafted 
for military service. Although specific announcement has not been 
made, it seems probable that a special assignment for remedial work 
will be made in the case of men who have some slight physical 
deficiencies. The gymnasial facilities of the University and the 
hospitals and dental infirmary will be valuable adjuncts in affect- 
ing cures of such defects, to the permanent advantage of the men. 

IV. COURSES OF STUDY 
In the large, the courses and subjects of study for members of 
the Students' Army Training Corps are prescribed by the Govern- 
ment. Much freedom, however, is given in arranging individual 

courses. 

Military instruction 

Except as noted below actual military instruction will occupy 11 
hours a week of the student's time, including practical instruction, 
theoretical military instruction, and physical training. 



Attention should be called to the fact that great advantage 
results from drilling where relative large numbers may participate. 
Participation in battalion drill and field manceuvers with hun- 
dreds or thousands of soldiers affects not only the morale but the 
actual efficiency of the training gained in a given time. The thrill 
of large troop movements gives an inspiration that carries the 
soldier through the long tedium of platoon and individual drill. 
The Military Band will be one of the inspiring features of the 
University cantonment. The present director has developed one 
of the best bands in the country. For two summers it has been 
greeted by large audiences in tours through Iowa and adjacent 
states. 

Academic studies 

Each student is also expected to take 42 hours of study in allied 
subjects. This 42 hours includes lectures, recitations, laboratory 
instruction, and the necessary preparation, each hour of lecture 
or recitation ordinarily requiring two hours of supervised study. 
Thus, in terms of semester-hours as employed by the University the 
number will be 14. 

Members of the S. A. T. C. are required to pursue the 
equivalent of a special three-hours course on "War Aims," the 
three hours being a part of the 14 above mentioned. The course on 
"War Aims" will be conducted in accordance with the special 
syllabi provided by the government. It will be supervised by a 
member of the faculty and its lectures will be drawn from various 
departments of the University. (See below under Professional 
courses.) 

Non-technical students of the S. A. T. C. will be expected to 
take in addition 11 hours of academic subjects. Eight of these 
hours are to be taken from the following list : 

English Astronomy 

French Hygiene 

German Sanitation 

Mathematics Descriptive geometry 

Physics Mechanical and free^iand drawing 

Chemistry Surveying 

Biology Economics 

Geology Accounting 

Geography History 

Meteorology International law 

Psychology Military law and government 

Topography and map nmking 



In addition to these eight academic hours, three more are to be 
taken as free electives either from subjects in the list named above 
or in some other allied subject duly approved by the Committee on 
Education and Special Training. 

Professional courses 

Of course the above list does not concern technical students in 
professional colleges. Students who have pursued for one year 
such studies as form part of the program of preparation for the 
Chemical Warfare Service Corps, the Medical Corps, the Engineer- 
ing Corps, the Ordnance Corps, or other technical branches of the 
service, pursue the work regularly prescribed in their several col- 
leges. For such students the period of military drill may be re- 
duced to not less than six hours a week, and substitution may be 
made of a corresponding of additional hours of instruction in 
approved technical subjects. Third and fourth year men in tech- 
nical colleges may be excused from the three hours ''war aims" 
course where the intensive professional work seems to demand. 

On account of the multiplicity of details necessarily involved 
in working out these new plans the complete schedules of studies 
probably will not be ready before the actual opening of registration. 
Such scliedules, prepared on the former basis of work and already 
in course of printing, have been recalled for further revision. Old 
students should be on hand this year a longer time than usual 
before the actual opening of college. Registration begins Sep- 
tember 26. 

Opening of University 

For similar reasons the opening of the University has been post- 
poned from September 16 to October 1. At this date everything 
will be in readiness, and the work will begin promptly at the time 
set for the initiation of the Government's program. 

Daily routine 
A daily routine similar to that of United States cantonments will 
be maintained for all members of the S. A. T. C. The following 
is a tentative schedule subject to future revision: 

6:45 A. M. Eeveille 

7:00 A.M. Mess 

7:30-9:30 A.M. Brill 

9:30-12:30 A. M. Classroom 

12:30 P. M. Mess 



1:30-4:30 P M. 


Class room 


4:30-5:30 P.M. 


Athletics 


5:30 P. M. 


Eetreat 


6:00 P. M. 


Mess 


7:30-9:30 P. M. 


Supervised study 


10:00 P. M. 


Taps 



Students will be under regular military law and discipline 
twenty-four hours a day. Vacations, holidays, and other release 
from camp duties will be given only upon formal leave. The col- 
legiate year, under the new regulations, will be twelve months in 
length, with quadrimester division of the work. Short recesses will 
be allowed between quarters. 

Courses for older men 

Many mature men of draft age have expressed a desire to serve 
the government in a highly specialized capacity which conforms to 
their previous experience and training, — in the quarter-master de- 
partment, the ordnance department, etc. 

Such men may find it wise to analyze their own experience and 
training with a view toward selecting courses in the University 
curriculum during the autumn quarter which will qualify in guch 
a way as to make it possible for the government to use them when 
they are drafted in the next call. At present the University has 
no definite information as to possibilities in the way of obtaining 
commissions. 

IV. DISPENSATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT 
Since the members of the Students' Army Training Corps are 
de facto soldiers in the United States Army, the Government under- 
takes the expenses of their training for military service. This 
governmental dispensation displays itself in four phases: 

1. All inducted members of the S. A. T. C. receive the regular 
pay of privates, $30.00 a month. 

2. All members of the Corps are furnished with housing and 
subsistence {i. e. room and board). The regular mess, which is to 
be provided by the Government through the University, is to con- 
form essentially to the regular army rations. 

3. The Government pays each member's tuition fee. 

4. The government supplies a regular military uniform which 
will probably consist of the following: 

1 Overcoat of Olive Drab, Woolen 



2 Coats of Olive Drab, Cotton 

2 Pairs Breeches of Olive Drab, Cotton 

1 Hat, Service 

1 Hat Cord, red, white and blue 

1 Leggings, Canvass, pair 

1 Shoes, russet, pair 

Undergarments must be supplied by the individual. Students 
who contemplate joining the S. A. T. C. should not bring with them 
to Iowa City anything more than immediately necessary articles 
of clothing. Trunks should not be brought. The uniform provided 
by the Government must be worn at all times. 

Boys under 18 

Students under 18 who are enrolled rather than inducted into 
the S. A. T. C. will not be supplied by the government with uni- 
form, subsistence, etc. until they attain to military age. However, 
they may purchase uniforms and enter the barracks. Upon at- 
taining military age and being registered they will enjoy the full 
benefits provided by the Government. Each member of the Corps 
will be required to take good care of his uniform, arms, and equip- 
ment, this instruction being considered an essential part of the 
training. 

So far as the University is now aware, books and similar material 
will not be furnished by the government. 

Members of the Corps will wear special collar insignia denoting 
tiieir status. 

VI. THE CALL INTO ACTIVE SERVICE 
The official statement set forth above explains, in sections 3 and 
4, the method of assignment of student soldiers to military duty. 
The University has no further information at the present time. 
Assurance has been given that members of the S. A. T. C. are not 
likely to be limited in the choice of the branch of sein^ice that they 
wish to enter to any greater extent than would have been the case 
if they had not been inducted into the Corps. Their preferences 
will be considered except where urgent military needs require a 
different course. 

As stated above, professional students of medicine, engineering, 
ehemistry, etc., may be detailed for a specified limited period for 
further training in their chosen work. 



The fact that all men now liable to draft may be called into ser- 
vice by the end of this academic year should not discourage 
eligible men from seeking admission to college and induction in the 
Students' Army Training Corps. Opportunity is offered for every 
such boy to obtain, virtually without the least cost to himself, what 
may be called a segment of a higher education. This in itself is 
worth while. 

More important still under the circumstances is the fact that by 
joining the S. A. T. C. he will be placing himself in line for higher 
service as a commissioned officer. According to various estimates 
the War Department will need immediately for our new army 
from 100,000 to 140,000 commissioned officers. A large part of 
these must come from the colleges and universities, as in, the past. 
The following statement has been made by the "War Department 
in an earlier bulletin: "The presumption is that, for the next 
year, the largest proportion of the student body reaching twenty- 
one years will be required to supply a large part of the officers 
needed for the national army. It is understood that at least four 
or five times as many officers will be required as the total number 
of students who will graduate from all American colleges and 
universities. Enlistment in the Students' Army Training Corps, 
therefore, while it does not hold out any promise of an officer's 
commission, is at the present time the plainest road leading in 
that direction. ' ' 

VII. THE ROLE WHICH WOMEN PLAY 
The conspicuous part which men must play in the grim business 
of war is not likely to blind any observer of the times to the equally 
important role of women. No longer are women content to sit 
in seclusion at home, while the men struggle in the field. If this 
war has shown us anything, it is the immense service which women 
can render, not, indeed, in the front line trenches but in positions 
both of toil and of danger close to the first reserves. Whether in 
hostess-house or in the home, in munition factory or in the office, 
in the hospital or in Red Cross sewing-room, women have rendered, 
are rendering, and will render in this war an indispensable service 
changing forever the status which they have assumed for genera- 
tions past. 



In the work of maintaining our educational institutions the influ- 
ence of women must count for more than it ever has done before. 
Upon them must rest in large part the maintenance of humanistic 
studies; but not only in this wider service but in the auxilliary 
work of war their help and their training is necessary. 

For them the University now offers unprecedented advantages to 
educate themselves for actual and immediate service. In a score 
of departments to-day they may secure training in what are known 
as practical courses. 

By means of its hospital facilities and the skilled staff of 
specialists in its College of Medicine, the University is undertaking 
to train scores of nurses for work both in war and at home. With 
the increase in our armed forces abroad must go a corresponding 
increase in the number of nurses. One American hospital in 
France is said to contain 50,000 beds. 

Scarcely less important at the present time is the service which 
women must render as teachers in our schools. Hundreds of super- 
intendents and principals will be called to the colors, and women 
must be trained to take their places. To meet these needs, the Uni- 
versity has increased its facilities for the special training of teach- 
ers in administrative positions. 

Not a few other courses of the Unversity are suitable for fitting 
women to take the places of men in positions needing special knowl- 
edge and skill. Such courses are those in drafting and mechanical 
drawing, in stenography and typewriting, in radio work, in teleg- 
raphy and telephony, in accounting; there are many besides. An 
effort is being made in aU these practical courses to fit the students 
not merely for examination but for actual service as soon as pos- 
sible. For such work many have already been sent forward. 

Of course all other branches of coUegiate and professional study 
are also open to election by women. This buUetin is intended 
mainly to outline the military work of the institution, but to pass 
over without notice its opportunities for women would be to por- 
tray a very one-sided picture of the University. 

The status of women in the University will not be far different 
from what it has been in the past. Currier Hall, the Annex, the 
Women's Gymnasium, and other special facilities will continue the 
same as heretofore. Women will of course be free to attend classes 
during any portion or during the entire period of the academic 




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year. Undoubtedly the absence of long vacations will seem to be 
a hardship from which women might be exempted. The short 
recesses between quarters will afford some degree of relief. How- 
ever, c'est la guerre, and the University authorities are confident 
that the young women will accept the situation cheerfully. One 
young woman who was asked as to her attitude replied, "We shall 
feel flattered." 

VIII. WHAT IT ALL MEANS 
The decision of the War Department to train in college this vast 
body of men is the most striking endorsement of higher education 
that history has ever recorded. Not as a matter of sentiment but 
with a view to cold-blooded utility this plan has been adopted. As 
the official statement suggests : ' ' This imposes great responsibilities 
on the colleges and at the same time creates an exceptional oppor- 
tunity for service." The University of Iowa wiU not hesitate *'to 
devote the v/hole energy and educational power of the institution 
to the phases and lines of traiuing desired by the Government." 
The future is big with promise. That we shall suffer some incon- 
venience is probable; perhaps it is even desirable, for out of this 
unified effort to build up our military resources in so lofty and 
intelligent a manner may hang wider influences than our vision now 
permits us to see. Loyalty, cooperation, and zeal are the watch- 
words which will lead us to the fullest achievement. The University 
calls upon every young man and woman in Iowa to engage in this 
year's work with the utmost courage and enthusiasm. It is for 
0ar country. 

INFORMATION 
For catalogues and other information about the University or 
any of its colleges or schools address : 

The Registrar, 

Iowa City, Iowa. 



While this bulletin is printing, telegrams from Washington have 
reached the University establishing ( 1 ) dates for the first three quar- 
ters of S. A_ T. C. year as follows: October 1 to December 21; Decem- 
ber 30 to March 22; March 31 to June 21; (2) a special course for 
law students leading to definite military service. Details as to ih« 
Jaw Bourse may be obtained upon application. 



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